The indoctrination, beatings and drugs Boko Haram terrorists used on a 10-year-old girl in Cameroon recently were not enough. They were able to strap explosives to her and send her out on a suicide bombing mission.

But she kept her wits about her. She and an older child went to a police station instead of following orders.

They are both safe, now.

Boko Haram, which operates primarily in Nigeria, is one of dozens of vicious Islamic terrorist organizations. Reports of them using children for attacks are not uncommon. Neither are atrocities in which they massacre children.

Why on earth would civilized people ever talk of “containing” such barbarians – as some U.S. leaders did for a long time?

Evil such as this cannot be “contained.” It needs to be eradicated. It’s hard to believe that there are people in government who dispute that reality.